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Re: tcpdrop(8) for DragonFly


From: "Andre Nathan" <andre@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 14:26:08 -0200 (BRST)

Joerg Sonnenberger said:
> The original intent was actually to be able to completely shutdown a
> connection, because e.g. for a DOS, you don't care about the other side,
> which most likely doesn't care about you.

Yes, that was the idea. I guess this is the dilemma of being a good net
citizen versus being DOS-free. But since we're dealing with the bad guys
anyway, I don't think that simply dropping them would be a bad thing...

Andre




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